Endangered
Abe's Salamander
Hynobius abei
Abe's Salamander is a salamander in the family Hynobiidae (order Caudata) — Hynobius abei, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adults measure 47–71 mm (1.9–2.8 in) in snout–vent length and 82–122 mm (3.2–4.8 in) in total length. Dorsal colouration is reddish brown to dark brown.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Japan and known from southwestern Honshu in northern parts of the Fukui, Kyoto, and Hyōgo Prefectures.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Females lay paired egg sacs containing 26 to 109 in total. The egg sacs are laid under leaves at the bottom of breeding ponds.
In crisis
All populations are small and susceptible to habitat loss (e.g., one population was destroyed by construction of a road).
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Abe's Salamander is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Abe's Salamander, Wikidata item Q2382691. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
